The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-12-09
Farm and Garden Notes.

to imferfect cleansing of the butter from
the buttcrmilk.
Refuse from steel works, freed from
iron and reduced to powder, represents
the newest fertilizer.
Foul air poisons farm animals as rap
| idly and surely as it does human beings.
Ventilate the stables.
Melons grow and ripen best in newly
cleared forest land, says a correspondent
| of american CultiUot0r.
According to DR.. Phares of Mississippi
the best beef is made from well-matured
| animals, no matter how old.
Onions will not keep we'll, if piled up,
but in a cool place there will be no diff
Guilty with them if they be spread in
thin layers.
Colts halter broken and accustomed to
lead by the side of the mother, to
buggy or wagon, when driven, are
thoroughly broken to lead.
Raw meat, chopped fine and fed once
a day, will produce more eggs than any
other food given hen. Give one pound
of rough, lean meat to fifteen hens.
''The hog is naturally the cleanest ami
NAL known" affirms a writer, who also
attributes swine cholera largely to the
use of corn as food for growing pigs.
The fall is an excellent time to sow
blue grass, broadcasting the seed evenly,
ten pounds to the acre, on ground that
is well prepared, MANFRED and har-
rowed.
Ripe pumpkins are considered profit
able food for beef cattle, mich cows and
hogs by many farmers. The seeds have
an injurious action and should be re-
moved.
A new pear, exhibited at the recent New
York State Fair, is the Barseckel, a
cross between the Bartlett and Seckel.
1t resembles the former IN shape, is of
medium size, greenish skin, and juicy;
flesh of fine grain.
The shorthorn breeds of cattle have
become so generally distributed over
the country that but comparatively low
prices are now realized for the animals
at public sales. And yet it would be
wise for farmers to stock up with the
best.
When hogs have the run of field, it
is rarely the case that they will get so
feverish as to be foundered all over, but
they will often get quite stiff. The corn
should be mixed with bran or oats, and
only half of the bulk of the food should
be of the corn or carbonaceous sort.
Such fevered pork is not the thing to
eat When hogs are fed all the corn
meal they will eat, one-third of it Is
wasted.
Few farmers are aware, says the
american Cultigat0r, that the apple-tree
borer also attacks and destroys trees of
mountain ash. Not only may this beautl-
full tree be swept away from lack of
care in guarding against this enemy, but
the borers bred in mountain ash may in
their turn carry destruction to neighbour
ing orchards. Now is the time to look
for the work of the borer in either kind
of tree.
The French mode of killing poultry
causing instant death and perfect bleed
inc, is accomplished by opening the
beak of the fowl and with a sharp
pointed and narrow bladed knife max
ING an in cision at the back of the oof of
the mouth, which will divide the vertebr9
and cause immediate death, after which
the fowls are hung up by the legs until
bled. They are then picked when
warm. In thi; way the skin presents a
natural appearance.
-'It is not the nature of cow" says
the National Lice Stock Journal, discuss
ing the question of the amount of
exercise a COW requires, ''to exercise
much She prefers in the open field to
quietly crop the grass until her stomach
is full, and then lie down in the shade
and peacefully chew her cud with
dreamy expression of the eye that de-
notes rest and enjoyment. She does
not run and cavOrt like the horse.
This is not her mission"
Farmers think more highly of the
young clover than they used to, and are
learning to treat it more decently, says
the Philadelphia Press. Grain and stub
BILE used to be turned into as soon as the .
crop was secured, partly to save scatter
ing grain, but mainly to let stock get .
fresh bite at the young feed. Where
clover plant is eaten down to the root /
the growth of the latter is much i'm
paired. The plant more easily becomes
a victim to the severity of winter.
There are now scores of farmers in this /
country who would as soon turn stock /
into a grain field just before as just /
after harvest. But when the clover be- /
gins to blossom in fall light pasturing
sufficient to keep the heads down IS not |
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